NASA failed to see surprise asteroid before it passed Earth | NYGazet

NASA failed to detect a near-Earth asteroid before it flew lower than the orbit of many satellites.

Earth has a near miss—twice—after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already flown by. The first incident occurred on Oct. 1, ... [2162 chars]